Belkin’s new router is rather compact and is excellent for cramped tables. The router can also be hung up in a wall if required. The design is pretty and the build quality isn’t too bad either.

It comes with four ports for clients and one for an Internet Connection – standard for a home router. The user interface is boring, and and way too bare for most people’s liking. The design doesn’t make it very easy to use either. It has all the features expected, including the ones for security. WEP, WPA and WPA2 are all supported, but the interface is painfully slow.

Belkin Wireless G Router

Routing, as expected, is possible too, and a unique feature is the list of application and games along with the list of ports used by them. This means you can just choose from a list and add to the port forwarding list. Filter can be set up to block access during specified hours or days. support for DynDNS and DtDNS is also available, which allows the router to automatically update your WAN IP using free DNS services. This allows easy access to your computer or router from other locations. This feature is increasingly popular on routers these days though.

The Belkin Wireless G Router performs well with wired connections, but not so well wirelessly. A gigabyte of data took around two minutes and four seconds to download accross wires, but the same data took close to seven minutes thirty seconds over the air. Uploading files took a little longer, but we didn’t have any latency issues. The router doesn’t support 802.11n, for those who might want it.

Updating of the firmware can be done using the web interface itself. With everything considred, we can not highly recommend this product because of it’s price.

At $50, it isn’t overly expensive, but for a little more you can get much better products with the same (or more) features and a much better interface.

However, if space constrains are your biggest concern, and you want something really small to hang on the wall or keep on your table, the Belkin Wireless G Router might just be what you are looking for.

Specifications:
Four 10/100 Base-T LAN Ports
One WAN Port
IEEE 802.11b, 802.11g

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